A settlement has been reached in three False Claims Act lawsuits filed against Odyssey HealthCare, a subsidiary of Gentiva Healthcare. Odyssey, which provides hospice services in approximately 27 states, will pay $25 million to settle the claims. The lawsuits alleged that Odyssey engaged in health care fraud regarding Medicare hospice benefits. Odyssey did not admit to the allegations against...
Seven people have been arrested — including a doctor, his office manager, and five home health agency owners — for an alleged health care fraud scheme involving almost $375 million in false claims against Medicare and Medicaid programs. The indictment alleges that Dr....
Insider trading is fraud that costs Americans enormous sums when a few people with privileged knowledge take advantage of that information for their own personal gain in the stock market. Cheng Yi Liang, a former FDA chemist, will be paying the price for insider trading based on non-public information he had access to as an FDA scientist. He has been sentenced to five years in prison for...
Akinsunbo Akinbile, who owns and operates Hallco Medical Supply, a Houston-area durable medical equipment (DME) company, pled guilty late last year to eight counts of Medicare fraud. He has now been sentenced to 30 months in prison. After he completes his prison term, Mr. Akinbile must serve three additional years of supervised release. He was also sentenced to pay restitution in the amount...
Dental Medicaid fraud costs the government — and thus taxpayers — enormous sums of money each year. But a recent news story revealed that other serious and painful consequences can result from dental fraud. New Jersey dentist Paresh Patel delayed the identification of children who died in a South Plainfield fire because he presented authorities with falsified dental records that the...
The Department of Justice has announced that it is setting up meetings with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to discuss ways the Chamber has in mind for the DOJ to stop enforcing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. According to the Chamber, U.S. corporations that form FCPA compliance programs should not be held responsible for their “rogue employees” who offer a bribe or two on foreign...
A Georgia couple has been convicted of tax fraud for falsely obtaining tax refunds totaling $229,305. A federal jury in Ft. Lauderdale has convicted Elmo Antonio George and Nasheba Necia Hunte of Villa Rica, GA of conspiracy to defraud the IRS and filing false tax returns, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ) press release. At sentencing, each defendant will face possible prison...
According to the Department of Justice (DOJ) press release, Miami-area resident Frank Criado has pleaded guilty for his part in a Medicare fraud scheme in which over $200 million in false claims were made to Medicare. Criado pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States by paying and receiving illegal health care kickbacks, as well as one count of conspiracy to...
A former student recruiter for Education Management Corp. (EDMC) has filed a qui tam lawsuit alleging that the for-profit college chain has engaged in deceptive recruitment tactics. According to the complaint, EDMC has paid recruiters illegal bonuses to lure students to its schools through fraudulent means. Allegedly, EDMC, the second-largest for-profit college chain in the country, paid...
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